permaculture

[Milogic@aol.com]

It has been 65 years since Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1932) died. During
his career, he demostrated beyond scientific doubt that plants replicate the
functions of animals and humans in nearly complete analog. His work, although
resisted for many years by the botanical establishment, was finally accepted
by the ultra conservative Royal Society and published in the heavily peer
reviewed magazine "Nature."

Probably the only function inadequately differentiated in plants is the
ability to scream vocally, within the limited ranges of human aural capacity,
when tortured. Bose demonstrated, however, that plants react quite sharply to
heat, cold, pinching, cutting. etc. One has to be quite insensitive not to
recognize these reactions. Humankind is noted as being among the most
insensitve species to torture of others elsewhere, especially other humans. 

Apparently, the botanical community (if that word can be used among those
dedicated in-fighters) as well as society in general has chosen to ignore
Bose's work--the bulk of which is published in, I believe, five rather
ponderous tomes containing massive details on both his methods and his
findings.

Milo Clark
Berkeley CA USA